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Past

/pɑːst/

To change place.

📖 Definitions of "Past"

verb
  1. 1

    To change place.

  2. 2

    To change in state or status

  3. 3

    To move through time.

  4. 4

    To be accepted.

noun
  1. 1

    The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.

    "a book about a time machine that can transport people back into the past"

  2. 2

    (grammar) The past tense.

adjective
  1. 1

    Having already happened; in the past; finished.

    "past glories"

  2. 2

    (postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.

  3. 3

    Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.

    "during the past year"

  4. 4

    (grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.

    "past tense"

adverb
  1. 1

    In a direction that passes.

    "I watched him walk past"

  2. 2

    Passing by, especially without stopping or being delayed.

    "Ignore them, we'll play past them."

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